Spinning toy



G. SAVICH SPINNING TOY May 5, 1936.

.Filed Jan. 16, 1934 Patented May 5 1936 UNITED STATE PATENT OFFICE 1 Claim.

This invention relates to improvements in spinning toys.

The primary object of this invention is to provide a spinning toy including a spindle having an annular recess confined by a housing of the same dimension for receiving the flexible actuator in order to retain the housing in position upon the spindle and at the same time confine the flexible actuator within a restricted area thereby preventing the same from becoming entangled between the spindle and housing.

A still further object of this invention is to provide a spinning toy of the above mentioned character having an enlarged squared end adjacent the housing and a disk wheel secured to the opposite end of the spindle whereby diiferent articles such as papers or the like may be secured to the squared portion of the spindle to rotate therewith simultaneously with the rotation of the disk wheel secured to the opposite end of the spindle thereby giving amusing eifects.

A still further object of this invention is to provide a spinning toy of the above mentioned character comprising comparatively few parts thereby reducing the liability of the same becoming out of order and increasing the simplicity of the toy, making the same capable of use by minor persons.

Other objects and advantages of the invention will become apparent during the course of the following description, taken with the drawing, wherein,

Figure 1 is a top elevational view of the toy embodying this invention;

Figure 2 is a side elevational view of the same;

Figure 3 is a vertical cross-sectional view taken on line 3-3 of Figure 1, looking in the direction of the arrows, illustrating the reduced annular portion formed on the spindle and the housing with its cut-away portion in alignment therewith for receiving the cord or flexible actuator which coils around the reduced portion of the spindle and is confined within the cut-away portion of the housing;

Figure 4 is a transverse cross-sectional view taken on line 4-4 of Figure 2, looking in the direction of the arrows illustrating the manner in which the string or flexible actuator is confined Within the cut-away portion of the housing;

Figure 5 is a transverse cross-sectional view similar to Figure 4, looking in the opposite direction; and

Figure 6 is a side elevational view of the spindle illustrating the housing and disk wheel removed for the purpose of disclosing the detailed construction thereof.

In the drawing, the reference character 5 designates an elongated spindle having an annular reduced portion 6 and an adjacent enlarged squared portion 1 tapered as at 8. The opposite end of the spindle 5 is reduced as at 9 for frictionally receiving a disk wheel I whereby the shoulder H of the reduced portion 9 will limit the inward movement of the disk wheel [0.

Encircling the spindle and rotatably mounted thereon is a housing [2 preferably formed cylindrical and having an internal cut away portion [3 of substantially the same length or dimension as the cut away portion 6 to provide a chamber of suflicient dimensions to receive the convolutions of a flexible actuator I4 such as a piece of string having its inner end tied to the reduced portion 6 as at l and its opposite end extending through an opening formed in the housing I2 as at 56 which opening extends inwardly from the periphery of the housing to the center of the internal cut-away portion l3. A button I! is secured to the free end of the flexible actuator M to be grasped between the index and middle fingers of the user while grasping the housing l2 with the other hand.

In use, the spinning toy is held in the above manner so that a pull may be exerted upon the string l4 whereby the spindle 5 will be rotated in one direction until the string has fully unwound or uncoiled from the annular reduced portion 6. By releasing the pull upon the string at the limit of its travel, the spindle 5 will continue its rotation and will cause the string M to be wound thereon. A further pull upon the string when the same has been fully wound upon the annular reduced portion 6 within the housing I2 will cause the rotation of the spindle 5 in the opposite direction. The toy may be kept spinning upon repeated pulls exerted on the string 14. With the cut-away portion or chamber l3 in the housing being of the same length as the annularly reduced portion 6 of the spindle 5, the string I4 is first wound on the reduced portion of the spindle in spaced relation to the Walls of the housing that form a bearing therefor on the spindle with the result that the string in being initially spaced from said joint is not subjected to pinching or binding thereby. It is also pos sible to provide a housing of relatively small external dimensions and by increasing the depth of the annularly reduced portion 6, a greater length of string may be employed.

It is to be understood that the form of the invention herewith shown and described is to be taken as the preferred embodiment of the same and that various changes in the shape, size and arrangement of parts may be resorted to without departing from the spirit and scope of the invention as claimed.

I claim:--

A spinning toy comprising a cylindrical spindle, an enlarged head at the upper end thereof defining an abutment shoulder, a disk wheel secured to the lower end of the spindle, said spindle having an annularly reduced portion spaced from the abutment shoulder of the enlarged head, a housing surrounding the reduced portion and having a chamber therein of the same length as the reduced portion of the spindle and of greater diameter than said spindle, said housing having a bearing on the spindle at each side of the reduced portion with the inner ends of the bearings respectively transversely aligned with the ends of the annularly reduced portions when the upper end of the housing is engaged with the abutment shoulder to prevent binding and entangling of a flexible actuator, and one of said bearings supportingly engaging the abutment shoulder of the head, a flexible actuator extending through the housing and having its inner end connected to the reduced portion of the spindle whereby rotary movement may be imparted to the spindle upon reciprocatory pulls on the flexible actuator.

GAVRO SAVICH. 

